SpaceX sticks the landing again after Falcon 9 rocket launch
 

SpaceX sticks the landing again after Falcon 9 rocket launch
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They're starting to make this look (relatively) easy.

Keeping plenty of space-mad Americans up late on a Saturday night, SpaceX successfully undertook its eighth Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida around 1:30 a.m. ET.

Minutes later, Elon Musk's private spaceflight company also managed to re-land the rocket's booster intact on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

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The launch's payload was a Japanese commercial communications satellite called JCSAT-16 for the SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation. The satellite was delivered to what's k**wn as Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) at a height of around 36,000 kilometres. Read more...

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